New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-01
POLITICS AND BUSINESS.
vIEwsoF PUBLIC MEN oNpUBLrc AFFAIRS.

quiry ns to his intentions, and received the quiet
reply that ho prefers to remain for the present In
the state Senate, he 10 to stay in public Life. Among
old politicians In the State. who have been
suneted with place and position, sort Of reverence
for State Senatorships amounting almost to adora-
mado that a seat in the state Senate OF New-York Ia
most desirable and agreeable form Of official life.
Mayor James j. BodeH Is said to ' be tho coming
Congre ssman for the Syracuse district
There appears to be no doubt about the extension
of gold mining interests on the Pacific Coast within
the last year 1t has been a steady growth, based
on a moro solid foundation than the old mining ex-
elements and fevers General Marshall, Of Denver
Is an Old miner and has made fortune In mines.
Said he the other day: "There Is every prospect
of big mining boom Of a different type from any
thing the country has 1t will be based on
business principles and solid foundation. 1t will come
about through the milling OF low grade ores, whose
1t is profitable to take out that yields S6
to So a ton. Invention in machinery has done that
coast win be worried over for free milling quartz of
this grade, and 1t win make mining lively eut the
activity will be solid and substantial in its foundation
When Robert Law, the millionaire anthracite coal
dealer of Chicago, was in New-York month ago he
predicted that the operations Of the Interstate Com
merce law would send up the price OF coal In chicago
to such an extent as greatly to diminish tho annual
sales. Mr.. Law Is in New-York again with slightly
different Wow Of the matter the result Of experience
under the law. Ho says now: RAILROAD men have
put down the rates within month so that the price
Of coal in Chicago is practically unchanged II
would probably have increased somewhat under the
present freight conditions but for the fact that this
off, inc Tho S eject Of Il the sH interstate S ax has
been most severe upon the producers IN han,as Ne
has taken five cents bushci of OF their hftyve and
sixty cent wheat out Of the pockets Of the farmers
in hurt to themselves The railroad companies arc
era uay dsregardns the law IN many pd.G mnny
respects The law Will never stand as It is"
In Senator shernan's room at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel tho other day General T.. A Merritt OF
Potsdam. the oil Collector Of the Port OF New-fork.
The General Is a heavy set man with hugo round
shoulders. big head and bushy sandy gay whiskers'
In conversation later in the day he said that he was
not committed in any direction the matter Of the
Presidential nomination for the Republican party
"What we have got TO do" said he "ls TO find the
strongest man, then unite and elect him. In
my judgment it Is not good policy TO look for new
man or q man without record. Tho Democrats had
advantage when they ran Cleveland IN the fact
that he had record but the next tlme that aaVan
tagc viii be gone Mr. Cleveland mus run upon ms
must oppose him by man with record MI
Blaine and Mr. Sherman are the TWO stfpngese neh
the party at the present tune. II they eouu &c
brought together and with their friend; could agree
II would be great stroke oil pocy ior INC PhhisS
II they could como together IL TOOK Doth OF IhGn
10 defeat Grant, you remember, and the foIowing
OF the two comprises the bulk Of The party
Occasionally one meets New-YoriIer who has
phiosophcay studied the future Of this great metro
polls. such man Ia Simon Stevens the attorney
who says: 1T a curious thing in the study OF the
worlds history to how the commercial centre has
shifted from time 10 time in general course around
tho globe. You can 60 back TO a timo when Antwerp
was the centre of tho worlds commerce. Next Am
steram held tho threads Of commercial venture Then
the centre shifted TO Liverpool Now 1t IA Lon
don, and noxt 1t viii DO New-Yorh careful study
Of the worlds commerce at the present time gives
fr,lfc lana he
land In her commercial relations Is bcslnnhs W 10
shaken while tho commerclal empire y urnnB n9ig
the Atlantic 20 the metropolis Of the New World
How long Ncw-York will hod that centre, wien once
Il i eaned no one can tredic' rbs n.tSsbsbments
OF the great lines OF railroads to the Pacific coast
ha. tended surely and certainly in this direeoa Il
has brought the trade Of the East by way Of tho
West"
The recent unwilling OF the statue Of John C. Cal
houn NJ Charleston recalls the fact that two de-
scendants Of that statesman have been for some time
in NcwYOrh business circles. They arc John O. Cal
houn Of All ansas, and his brother Patrick Calhoun
The Arkansas man Ia sfxfooter OF roInd ana heavy
figure. with large round face swarthy COM
pIc1ion, black nu-tache and dark eyes, a band'ome
but dull looking OF apparently sluggish tempcra-
mcnt. lie is a planter In Arkansas, n man OF Irr
uonce IN politics, although he has persisently re-
fused to tako Oce and has acquired wealth Patrick
Calhoun !. lawyer slender IN PrVPorS n sr anu
Ways VI the young blood Of the south In the uaSs
dead set in wa street and has been both fortunate
and unfortunate. after the manner OF newcomers to
moad Tcrminai "deaIS and Is reported TO have made
somo money. The Cahouns nyo al inc New- 10Th orn
The South on account Of its record during the war
when 1t the hotbei Of the southern sympalhner'
In NewYOrk and Of Intrigue for the southern cause
Tho region which lies from fifty to 100 miles be-
low lake Erie, stretching across Northern Ohio and
reaching into Northern Indiana, has become tho scat
Of much excitement over natural gas discoveries The
great wells discovered and utilized at Pttsburg and
vicinity appear to have continuation west"hru Win
tho rock drifts S. l.. Lamison, of Toledo, who Is In
terested in the gas fields, remarked day or TWO ago.
"Thc most important development Of natural gas has
been IN the neighborhood Of Findlay, which Is In
the southwest corner OF weudeincd fold which has
Fostoria In the southeastern corner ms Il Io
location In which Governor Foster u pushing lhVeS-
LEGATIONS, securing options and locating new wells
Tho Governor Is backed, understand. by the stand
ard OIL Company, and they have already made such q
stroke that they can see their way to millions Eos
torla IA supplied with gas from well ABOUT four ines
from the city. The same well supplies trenVhu
twenty miles away. The amount OF gas yioiueu Ny
this well Is three and one-han million CUBIC
feet day. You can imagine something oi tho OK
element when tell you about tho manner In when
real estate has gone up know firm who bought
a twenty-acre farm for $1,000 in the neishDorhooa
Of this WELL plotted It INTO town D S9' a TSs n = only
twelve Hays tha sol, 1 VbnrS arr going Prospecting
for Gas has been going all over tho northern ONO
He aS miles, gas Se eS' csHaG but The
not Very great 1t has been found to Increase as the
borings arc tried westward, and seems 10 lhgdc as
That there Il great reservoir OF gas under NOfth
Western Ohio somewhat similar to that which exists
around Pttsburg"
Robert f. Randall brother Of the Pennsylvania
statesman, 4. guest at the St. James Hotel ana Is
making New-York his base or operations In nhahclai
matters He has been operating IN wall Street WIN
considerable SUCCESS and has an expectation Of making
his fortune out Of gold mining investments. lie To-
sembles his brother in his facial expression, having
tho same high roundy retreating forehead and gen
e,l contour The features, however, arc much smaller
and hc is a more slender man. lie wears ioAe
droorIno mustache OF the Turkish style, cut like
hoif moon AMI extending down over his chin. Ills |
necktie Is "a huge black silk scarf tied In sailor
I,not uo IA an attorney and was at one time re- |
Ia.Urd by the Peruvian Government III us hHains
.aI., IA fhn Chian war. lie arranged WIN |